Garden Tour and House Updates – In this video I show off the progress of the house and the garden. This summer has tough, but there are some things looking great in the garden and some things that are about to bloom.
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25 Comments
Sedum is definitely the showiest right now!
Like you said, lots of stuff looking rough, but my Blue Mist is looking lush and loaded.
Would love a zone 6 Camelia or Gardenia. Anything happening in breeding that might make that dream come true?
SC zone 8a. Gomphrena has been a clear winner all summer and looks like it will continue for a while! A few plants are all you need and they cover a large area. Great for cut flowers as well.
My hibiscus has gone crazy with beautiful blooms this year in Hickory, NC. Still loaded!
Love the transformation, looks great! Did you re-home the aluminum porch supports? Been looking for some to replace mine.
The house and garden look great Jim. When you said you are going to paint the porch you might consider just a power wash. Painting looks good for awhile then it chips and very slippery in winter. Thank you and love the vids and especially the tours.
Thanks, Jim and Stephany! 😊
Great video, Jim and Stephany! Nice to see the house stuff coming along, and Holly girl enjoying all of the improvements. Question about that farfugium you featured: is this a typically readily-available plant at stores? How did you get it? I fell in love with leopard plant after a trip to NOLA, as it’s peppered around town there and in their wonderful botanic garden. Just a really cool plant! Anyway, I’m probably a bit far north (N AL 7b) for it to be here as I’ve looked in local garden centers with no luck. Maybe I’ll have to search online. Can’t wait to see the Oct vid of that one blooming in your garden. Cheers.
I think I planted that and it’s coming up now. The hairy balls are going to freak me out. Ion know about this. 😂. I may dig that up.
Love the house! It’s looking wonderful!
A friend of ours bought a house with a beautiful antique greenblue paint color. A very unusual shade of verdigris.
Years later the house needed a pressure washing, and the beautiful color washed off to reveal a light shade of blue!
Who knew? The previous owners had painted a stain over the blue paint, that I assume facilitated the sale of the house.
I still miss seeing that old color though. There are remnants of it under the front porch eaves.
Max Vogel Anemones!
Zone (7b) 8a.
Come frost THE plants that I will most miss are:
Angelonia Alonia Big Indigo. ………in big deep containers.
…….Tall woody shrubs with rigid upright stems.
……Big flowers of a CLEAR deep purple with a white “bee”.
…….Nonstop bloom. The hotter the better, though I grow them in big deep containers so water reserves is never an issue.
……Regular Bt spray recommended.
…….As a tropical, it overwinters in the greenhouse more successfully than any other series I have tried.
…….. Look for Big Cherry and others in the Alonia Big series.
……Rosemary Chef’s Choice…….. an echo of form to the rear.
……..Lantana Luscious Grape ……….an echo of the Big Indigo color but in a lighter shade of clear purple,
LantanaLuscious Grape …. heat sensitive, keep Luscious Grape watered to keep it growing.
……..is just coming back into bloom, then blooms to frost.
…… It is worth the effort.
Evolvulus Blue My Mind.
……..Nonstop ………morning flowers mostly. Makes every morning memorable!
…….A woody sub shrub,……… it overwinters easily in unheated greenhouse.
Begonia Big series………….finally the breeders are listening to us.
Diplodenia ………cascading,
with Dietes vegata playing the thriller role better than a cordyline. Perfect.
……Easy to winter over too.
Tropical hibiscus ‘Painted Lady’……….…..I always come back to HER! They are heat sensitive though, and are just coming back into heavy bloom.
……..nothing else compares really. Makes my buttons pop.
………grown as tree form standards, and then placed on high stool chairs ….. so out of the reach of deer!
…….use tall narrow palm pots. Up pot into only slightly wider container increments.
……….use an iron base from an old floor lamp to give your pot weight, so that it wont blow over.
……..also puts flowers high into the air. Drama.
Brugmansia Charles Grimaldi………….. if you only allow one stem to grow, it will be taller faster from a herbaceous clump . Or overwinter to maintain a tall stem.
It has just recently come into flower.
Bt spray regularly.
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And for a hardy perennial:
Andropogon gerardii Blackhawks……in spring emerges dark plum foliage..Now elongating flower stems with dark plum purple flushes. Blue green foliage flushed dark plum.
……NICE!
Loropetalum Carolina Moonlight an echo.
………..better than burgundy flushed panicums that fade to dead tissue brown in our heat!
…….also grew Blackhawks in LEAN pot bound container, and the enlongating flower stems sported stem leaves of bright scarlet! An echo of the Diplodenia.
……. thin licks of scarlet 3 feet into the air. So cool.
So many plant. So little time.
Looking great Jim!! Love the house color!!
And another three that I will never be without,
though I will whisper in case the deer are listening.
Gerbera Garvinia Sweet Glow
Pentas (tall) Ruby Red
Sunpatien Compact Electric Orange
…………,all the way to frost.
Budalia and sadahlia are so funny. I laughed out loud.
Sorry but that cotton looking plant is not so pretty.
Bedazzled Budalia!!
The house looks great! Can't wait to see what you do with the foundation plantings. As for my standouts, like yours, my lantana is going strong and just looks so fresh. My zinnias are also weathering the heat well. I did a late planting of them, mid to late June, so think that's why they aren't all worn out. Thanks again for another great video!
BudDahlia! loving the new combinations and names.😅
Deer resistant plants mean nothing here in WV, the deer eat everything! 🤨 So frustrating! I love when surprise plants come up between other plants and shrubs! Your garden is still so pretty!
I think my favorite plant that you shared is that Loropetalum. 'Emerald Snow' is going on my want-list. 💚
Jim,
What on Earth were the critters clustered beneath the milkweed seed pod @ the Video's 2.38 mark? 😯
Thank you. 😊
Thanks 🍁🍂